Alarming lack of knowledge about antithrombotic therapy among patients with atrial fibrillation by Julia Miguel Leitão, Fernanda Maria Dutra Spagnuolo Moreira, Ingrid Eyng Thiel, Isadora Yasbick Spricido, Rômulo Henrique Malaquias Silva, Viviane Flumignan Zétola

“…ABSTRACT Large population campaigns have been conducted in Brazil to improve knowledge about the signs and symptoms of stroke and the importance of time to care. Objective: Parallel to these important actions, we aimed to evaluate the lay knowledge of patients with atrial fibrillation, a well-recognized etiology of stroke, adequate treatment and management of which can prevent up to 30% of cerebrovascular events. …”
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Performance Prediction of Refractured Wells Based on Embedded Discrete-Fracture Modeling Method by Yawen Du, Xiaolu Cao, Bailu Teng

“…The calculated results in this paper show that, for the same equivalent matrix permeability, a larger permeability component parallel to the initial fracture can lead to a higher increase ratio of the refracturing treatment but lower cumulative production. …”
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Towards an efficient LWE‐based fully homomorphic encryption scheme by Uddipana Dowerah, Srinivasan Krishnaswamy

“…In this work, the authors propose a multi‐bit levelled fully homomorphic encryption scheme using multivariate polynomial evaluations whose security depends on the hardness of the LWE problem. …”
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The Cow Paradox—A Scoping Review of Dairy Bovine Welfare in India Using the Five Freedoms by Chirantana Mathkari

“…Against this background, this research aims to evaluate the welfare state of the Indian dairy bovines by analyzing their welfare at various life phases using the Five Freedoms framework. …”
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Hybridization capture sequencing for Vibrio spp. and associated virulence factors by Kyle D. Brumfield, Sana Enke, Brandon K. Swan, Lakeshia Carrasquilla, Michael D. Lee, David B. Stern, Linn Gieser, Nur A. Hasan, Moiz Usmani, Antarpreet S. Jutla, Anwar Huq, Katie Caviness, Jennifer S. Goodrich, Robert Bull, Rita R. Colwell

“…The HCS panel targeted a family of molecular chaperones (CPN60) specific to 69 Vibrio spp. and 162 Vibrio-specific virulence factors. This approach was evaluated in parallel with traditional whole-community shotgun sequencing in a metagenomic analysis of water and oyster samples collected from the Chesapeake Bay. …”
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Immunological Efficacy and Safety of a New Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Conjugated Thirteen-Valent Vaccine in the Immunization of Adults and Children (Results of Clinical Studies in... by I. V. Feldblium, M. H. Alyeva, A. V. Bikmieva, V. V. Romanenko, O. A. Rychkova, A. N. Galustyan

“…The immunological efficacy and safety of the pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugated adsorbed thirteen-valent vaccine were studied in a prospective comparative randomized double-blind study in parallel groups in adult volunteers aged 18 to 65 years and a multicenter open comparative study in parallel groups in young children. …”
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Spatial variability of biophysical multispectral indexes under heterogeneity and anisotropy for precision monitoring by Valeria R. Lourenço, Abelardo A. de A. Montenegro, Ailton A. de Carvalho, Lizandra de B. de Sousa, Thayná A. B. Almeida, Thiago F. S. de Almeida, Bárbara P. Vilar

“…Plots with different types and densities of culture were evaluated in a didactic vegetable garden. Five vegetation indexes obtained from aerial multispectral camera images were evaluated parallel with geostatistical analysis and anisotropy investigation for multiscale spatial modeling. …”
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Ontology-Based, Process-Oriented, and Society-Independent Agent System for Cloud Computing by Mahmood Fathalipour, Ali Selamat, Jason J. Jung

“…We believe that our proposed system will improve when we apply some methods to find the best process patterns and perform parallel processes.…”
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Potential surrogate endpoint for B-cell hematologic malignancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Satoshi Hirano, Keisuke Hanada, Hideki Maeda

“…Abstract Confirming the patient benefit of progression-free survival (PFS) in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) and multiple myeloma (MM) has become increasingly challenging due to the improved outcomes brought by novel therapies. In parallel, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends conducting randomized trials, focusing on evaluating early endpoints to compare study and control arms for accelerated approval (AA). …”
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Patient-Oriented pharmacy education by Mesut Sancar

“…It is relatively more difficult to evaluate students in real environments, such as clinics, and more emphasis should be placed on evaluating student performance in practice environments. …”
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A Generalized Composition Approach in Network Data Envelopment Analysis for Complex Structures: An Application of Higher Education Institutions in Poland by Dimitrios Sotiros, Gregory Koronakos, Julia Żołądkiewicz

“…We present in this paper the pitfalls of the most established approach in Network Data Envelopment Analysis for units with a~parallel internal structure. We show that these pitfalls are the cause of deficiencies of prevalent models employed for general series structures. …”
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Convergent evolution of antibiotic resistance mechanisms between pyrrolobenzodiazepines and albicidin in multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by Yasmin M. Surani, Matthew E. Wand, Pietro Picconi, Michele Di Palma, Riccardo Zenezini Chiozzi, Md. Mahbub Hasan, Paolo Andriollo, Stefan Grätz, Kazi S. Nahar, Michael Maynard-Smith, Roderich D. Süssmuth, Roberto A. Steiner, Khondaker Miraz Rahman, Charlotte K. Hind, J. Mark Sutton

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Programming virulent bacteriophages by developing a multiplex genome engineering method by Hailin Zhang, Ru Zhu, Zhaofei Wang, Ruoting He, Yuran Zhang, Ji Luan, Yaxian Yan, Youming Zhang, Hailong Wang

“…Using the SMART method, the 39.9-kb T7 E. coli phage genome was split into 10 segments, and 8 genomic loci were deleted in parallel to obtain a chassis phage with 10% genome reduction. …”
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Prolonged versus single dose in penicillin oral challenge testing: protocols for a pilot and definitive randomised controlled trial (PROSPECTOR studies) by Vito Sabato, Jason Trubiano, Sara Vogrin, Richard Sullivan, Michael Lane, Suran Fernando, Fiona James, Jonathan Grant Peter, Morgan Rose, Amy Legg, Irvin Ng, Ana Copaescu, Elise Mitri, Jack Godsell, Lene Heise Garvey, Philip Li

“…The aim of the PROSPECTOR studies was to determine the feasibility (PROSPECTOR-1) of a definitive trial (PROSPECTOR-2) to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of prolonged oral challenge (ie, 5 days) versus single-dose oral challenge in patients with a delayed or unknown penicillin allergy phenotype (PROSPECTOR-2).Methods and analysis A pair of double-blind two-arm parallel placebo-controlled trials will be undertaken—PROlonged versus Single dose in PEnicillin oral Challenge Testing double-blind parallel group randomised placebo-cOntrolled tRial (PROSPECTOR Studies). …”
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Energy Maximisation and Power Management for a Wave-to-Wire Model of a Vibro-Impact Wave Energy Converter Array by Shuai Chen, Siya Jin, Bingyong Guo, Kunde Yang

“…A hybrid energy storage system, consisting of batteries and supercapacitors, is placed parallel to the DC bus via buck-boost DC/DC converters to smooth the array power output, and a Lyapunov-based power management strategy is utilised to control the DC/DC converters for stabilising the DC bus voltage. …”
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Alternative Fuels as a Sustainable Innovation in Vehicle Fleet Across the EU–27: Diagnosis and Prospects for Development by Sylwia Pangsy‑Kania, Justyna Biegańska, Floros Flouros

“…The study aims to characterize and evaluate, in a comparative manner, the current stage of the adoption of AF passenger cars into the general (M1) passenger car fleet in the EU member states. …”
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Mineralization and Crop Uptake of Nitrogen from Textile Manufacturing Wastewater Sludge Cake by T. P. McGonigle, E. G. Beauchamp, L. J. Evans, C. J. Wells

“…Wastewater sewage sludge cake from textile manufacturing was evaluated by soil incubation experiments and a greenhouse experiment for use as a soil amendment to provide crop N. …”
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Research on Capacitated Multi-Ship Replenishment Path Planning Problem Based on the Synergistic Hybrid Optimization Algorithm by Lin Yang, Qinghua Chen, Junjie Mu, Tangying Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, Shuxiang Cai

“…To evaluate performance, the SHOA is benchmarked against ACO, the GA, the particle swarm optimization algorithm, and the simulated annealing algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem. …”
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Energy Efficiency Assessment of Electric Bicycles by Tomasz Matyja, Zbigniew Stanik, Andrzej Kubik

“…This study proposes a method for evaluating the energy efficiency of bicycles, which stands out by relying on relatively imprecise data recorded at low frequency by a commercial bike computer with accessories. …”
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Assessment of the national emission reduction strategies effects for Bulgaria (2020–2029 and after 2030) on surface FPRM and CPRM concentrations by Kostadin Ganev, Georgi Gadzhev, Ivelina Georgieva, Vladimir Ivanov, Nikolay Miloshev

“…Making parallels between the concentrations, with different scenarios simulated, gives the possibility to evaluate the national emission reduction strategies’ effect.…”
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